André Kertész was one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. Working intuitively, he captured the poetry of modern urban life with its quiet, often overlooked incidents and odd, occasionally comic or even bizarre juxtapositions. He endeavored “to give meaning to everything” around him with his camera. Combining this seemingly artless spontaneity with a sophisticated understanding of composition, Kertész created a photographic idiom that celebrates direct observation of the everyday.